MPIs for Earth Science Lesson

GRADE: 3rd

ELD STANDARD: WIDA Standard 4: The Language of Science EXAMPLE TOPIC: Earth Systems Science
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CONNECTION: Colorado Academic Standards for Earth Science #1 (Grade 3)

1. Earths materials can be broken down and/or combined into different materials such as rocks, minerals, rock cycle, formation of soil,
and sand some of which are usable resources for human activity.

a. Investigate and identify two or more ways that Earths materials can be broken down and/or combined in different ways such
as minerals into rocks, rock cycle, formation of soil, and sand (DOK 1-2).

EXAMPLE CONTEXT FOR LANGUAGE USE: Students will explore the different ways that rocks form using multiple centers and interactive
activities in order to create a graphic organizer describing rock formation.

COGNITIVE FUNCTION:
Students at all levels of English Language Proficiency DESCRIBE the 3 ways that rock formation occurs.

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Level 6 - Reaching
DOMAIN: Writing

Match the pictures of 3 Identify the 3 types of Describe the process Complete a graphic Describe the 3 types
types of rocks with the rocks by creating an of 3 types of rock organizer that of rocks with an
description of how it illustration and writing formation using describes the illustration and
was formed in a a list to describe the sentence frames and formation of the 3 description of each
graphic organizer. formation process of an illustration of each types of rocks using rock and how it was
the 3 types of rocks. rock. simple sentence formed.
starters and an
illustration.
TOPIC-RELATED LANGUAGE:
Students at all levels of English proficiency interact with content specific vocabulary, such as: igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, and
formation.